Unstable ocean conditions can influence temperature, precipitation and extreme weather events around the world.
Unlike weather, which can change wildly and rapidly day-to-day, Earth's oceans usually only have slight changes throughout the week. This persistence is called"memory" and is related to the thickness of the ocean's top mixed layer. Similar to how a thicker mattress provides better cushioning, a thicker sea surface layer allows for a better memory because of the thermal inertia at play.
Study co-author Fei-Fei Jin, a professor at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa, said that this, along with random fluctuations that have been found in sea surface temperature,"suggestAnd the impact of these changes will be seen within our lifetime. Shoaling induced by climate change is primarily responsible for the decline, researchers found, and human activities, primarily burning fossil fuels, are the main source of global warming.
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